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Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

NHS trust · ODS code RFF

About this trust

Type
NHS acute trust
Hospitals
1 on the CQC register
Website
www.barnsleyhospital.nhs.uk

Care Quality Commission rating

Trust-wide rating, most recent inspection: 2018-03-14.

Good 3 of 4 CQC bands

Care Quality Commission, Open Government Licence v3.0, retrieved 2026-08-30.

What the CQC inspected

The CQC rates every service against five key questions. These are the ratings from the most recent inspection.

Safe
Requires improvement
Are people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?
Effective
Good
Does care, treatment and support achieve good outcomes and follow the best available evidence?
Caring
Good
Do staff involve and treat people with compassion, kindness, dignity and respect?
Responsive
Good
Are services organised to meet people's needs?
Well-led
Good
Do leadership, management and governance assure high-quality care?

Care Quality Commission, Open Government Licence v3.0, retrieved 2026-08-30.

What patients said

The NHS Friends and Family Test asks patients whether they would recommend the service. Responses for May 2026.

Inpatient care
93%
would recommend · 852 responses
A&E
92%
would recommend · 604 responses
Outpatient appointments
95%
would recommend · 573 responses

NHS England Friends and Family Test, Open Government Licence v3.0, retrieved 2026-08-30. The FFT is not a formal performance measure and response rates vary between services.

Cancer waiting times

How quickly this trust diagnoses and starts treatment for people referred with a suspicion of cancer. Data for March 2026. Targets are the NHS operational standards. No English region currently meets the 62-day standard.

62-day treatment
65%
% starting first cancer treatment within 62 days of an urgent GP referral
target 85%
28-day diagnosis
79%
% told they have cancer, or that they do not, within 28 days of an urgent referral
target 75%
31-day treatment
97%
% starting first treatment within 31 days of the decision to treat
target 96%

62-day treatment by cancer type

The share of patients who began treatment within 62 days of an urgent referral, for each type this trust reports. The national aim is 85%. Numbers per type are smaller, so they move more from month to month.

Cancer typeWithin 62 days
Breast94%
Lung80%
Bowel58%
Prostate46%
Skin97%
Gynaecological20%
Head and neck14%
Lymphoma100%
Oesophagus and stomach67%
Liver and bile duct80%
Other urological14%
Other blood53%

NHS England Cancer Waiting Times, Open Government Licence v3.0, retrieved 2026-08-30. Provisional monthly data. Small numbers of patients can move a percentage sharply.

Mortality (SHMI)

The Summary Hospital-level Mortality Indicator compares the number of people who die after care at this trust with the number expected, given how ill the patients were. Rolling 12 months to August 2025.

As expected SHMI 0.921.00 = as expected

NHS Digital, Accredited Official Statistic, Open Government Licence v3.0, retrieved 2026-08-30. The SHMI is not a measure of the quality of care and a “higher than expected” band is a flag for further investigation, not a judgement. It must not be used to rank trusts. It does not include deaths of patients receiving palliative care where that is coded.

NHS waiting times, trust-wide

Weeks from referral to treatment for NHS-funded care, across all this trust's sites.

Source: NHS England Referral to Treatment, latest published month.
SpecialtyMedian waitWithin 18 weeksPatients waiting
All specialties10 wks71%21,978
Cardiology6 wks97%714
Dermatology10 wks76%1,580
Ear, nose and throat12 wks65%3,456
Elderly medicine4 wks97%111
Gastroenterology7 wks93%1,087
General internal medicine5 wks100%35
General surgery9 wks69%2,073
Gynaecology11 wks71%2,220
Ophthalmology10 wks70%3,454
Oral surgery16 wks53%1,461
Other medical services6 wks96%547
Other services13 wks70%30
Paediatric services9 wks81%874
Respiratory medicine4 wks95%326
Rheumatology2 wks99%220
Trauma and orthopaedics14 wks58%2,618
Urology9 wks69%1,172

NHS-funded care only. Retrieved 2026-08-30.

Hospitals in this trust

Each is inspected and rated separately.

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Data shown with the date it was retrieved. Waiting times are NHS statistics for the named provider and change every month. How we source and check this.